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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Good lord, pls no.

Sometimes 3D #dataviz is just the way to go 🤠 I created this illustration for @sciam.bsky.social December '25 issue on rare earth elements and how much of it is estimably left. Comparing the already produced with how much is in reserve. As always great to be working with @jenchristiansen.com

This is deeply disturbing is so many ways 😡 “affiliated active clubs have claimed to know my home address and threatened to share it, raising concerns that I might have to uproot my life and move.” The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada via thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Vancouver mayor Ken Sim sued for defamation after accusing a colleague of handing out illegal drugs on Xmas 🎄 💊 😮 #vanpoli #vancouver vancouversun.com/news/sean-or...

“There’s some really bad stuff in here that I think erodes transparency in British Columbia.” #bcpoli #foi BC Government Accused of a Stealth Attack on Freedom of Information via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Amidst all this real estate wealth, why all this cultural (with others) poverty "From street parties to fireworks: Why Vancouver’s festival scene is on shaky ground" as told by Sarah Grochowski via @vancouversun.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/why-van...

“these aren’t numbers, these are people, and it’s a new person dying every time.” #bcpoli #toxicdrugs thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

“The news conference began at 2 p.m., and by 2:05 p.m., the mayor had disappeared.” #vanpoli

🚨 All the car free days 🚫🚗in #vancouver are cancelled this year 😢 vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

Oof. Drug poisoning calls to B.C. EHS have doubled since 2016 #toxicdrugs #bcpoli vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

After revealing LNG Canada is flaring far above permitted levels, we went to experts. What they told us about a three-year fix — and the role of the BC Energy Regulator — raises new questions about timelines and enforcement. thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-f... #bcpoli

“We’re at a point in this country in Canada where we have the largest white nationalist movement that has ever existed in this country’s history.” Yikes. Great reporting from @jenstden.bsky.social tho #bcpoli #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Health officials think medetomidine, a sedative used for aggresive animals, is behind a second spike of drug poisonings to hit #BritishColumbia in two months #toxicdrugs #dataviz vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Internal documents show LNG Canada is burning a lot more natural gas than expected — while repeatedly saying the situation is ‘normal.’ Get the story behind the story in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-l...

Daaaaammmmmn… 😍 www.reddit.com/r/britishcol...

“As we stand outside this courthouse, stepping into five weeks of trial, we know the legitimate right of journalists to do their job, to perform their vital role in our democracy, is at stake.” — Narwhal co-founder Carol Linnitt on our case against the RCMP: thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom/

Canada-wide, U.S.-bound flights were down 13.5 per cent this past November, compared to the same period in 2024.

🚨🚨🚨 Transit dataviz! 🚨🚨🚨 Lookup the average per-passenger cost for every #translink bus route in MetroVancouver 📊 🤓 #transit #dataviz #datavisualization #metrovancouver Special thanks to @denisagar.bsky.social from @movementyvr.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Sunrise Market Is a Rare Gem. And a Dying Breed via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Beautiful set of pictures for “photos of the century” from @theobserveruk.bsky.social 📸 #photography #photojournalism observer.co.uk/culture/phot...

“The only reason Trans Mountain looks like it’s making a profit is that most of the debt has been moved off their books,” said Thomas Gunton. Great read from @zoeyunker.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

"It takes a village: How Vancouver plans to make its neighbourhoods feel more 'connected'" as told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

Watch Vancouver’s hardest-working shared bike 🚲 travel 17,300+ km in a minute & 19 seconds #bikevancouver #bikeyvr #cycling #dataviz Read more about bike #1079 here! vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...

How the Finns ended pedestrian traffic deaths in Helsinki #visionzero www.not-ship.com/email/5f9ec5...

Dataviz 📊 meets crosswalk 🚶🏽‍♂️ #datvosualization #visonzero www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/10/this...

New on Reuters : “How the deadly Hong Kong inferno spread”

“There has been a history of lack of transparency and accuracy in terms of the description of the (vpd school liaison) program” Based on this reporting from @thetyee.ca it doesn’t appear to be getting any better. #vanpoli #accountability thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

ABC Vancouver’a big 'zero' budget #vancouver #vanpoli vancouversun.com/_preview/opi...

Vancouver Police Finally Reveal Names of School Liaison Officers from @kehyslop.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Curious how the 🌌 #NorthernLights 🌌 work? We got you covered! #science #space vancouversun.com/news/aurora-...

LNG expansion could bring 200 more 🚢 tankers 🚢 a year to B.C.’s West Coast, within 5km of roughly 800,000 people and passing near and sometimes through protected marine areas #climatechange #bcpoli #environment vancouversun.com/news/lng-tan...

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City of #Vancouver looking to cut $50 million in spending - but VPD still get a big boost. Story by Dan Fumano, 📈 #dataviz 📉 by me! #vanpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

A rare good news story! 🍿 🎥 #vancouver #parktheatre www.vancitylookout.com/p/the-park-t...

Replacing the Pattullo bridge #vancouver #dataviz #substack open.substack.com/pub/visualiz...

Amazing reporting… isht. The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...

In 2022 ABC promised "to expand the city’s tree canopy by adding 100K new trees to cool down neighborhoods, improve equity for lower-income communities ... and mitigate climate change." Now it's all potentially on the chopping block, thx to Ken Sim's reckless cuts. vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

this Trevor Noah bit is brilliant #comedy #standup youtube.com/watch?v=U9bf...

Amazing old-school 🌦️🌦️🌦️ weather 🌦️🌦️🌦️ report from 1907 in The Province – thanks to John Mackie for digging these up!!! 🙏 #history #illustration @theprovince.com vancouversun.com/news/this-da...

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Great story from my collegue Denise Ryan @vancouversun.bsky.social #addition vancouversun.com/health/vanco...

"Evictions driving Metro Vancouver homelessness: Report" as told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/evictio...

This seems… umm… 👮‍♀️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #britishcolumbia #policing #accountability #rcmp

Whoa 😳 🤯 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Another day of smokey skies... 🔥 💨 #wildfire #bc #dataviz vancouversun.com/news/bc-wild...